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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 15, 2026, 11 AM Eastern · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report, I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Volker Turk, has accused
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  Speaker 1: Israel of war crimes following the recovery of hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: bodies from Gaza rubble. Turk stated that these discoveries revive
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  Speaker 1: concerns from a 2024 UN report, which found Israeli strikes
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  Speaker 1: on residential buildings may have violated international humanitarian law. He
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  Speaker 1: noted that remains of apparent families, including women and children,
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  Speaker 1: were unearthed. Israel has repeatedly rejected allegations of deliberately targeting civilians,
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  Speaker 1: asserting it acts in accordance with international law. According to
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian civil defence, over 630 bodies and human remains have
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  Speaker 1: been recovered across Gaza since November 2025, with Palestinian authorities
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  Speaker 1: estimating thousands more remain buried. UN officials also cited Israeli
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  Speaker 1: restrictions on items like DNA kits and excavators as impeding
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  Speaker 1: recovery and identification efforts. In Gaza, health officials reported that
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  Speaker 1: Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday killed at least two Palestinians, including
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  Speaker 1: a child, and wounded seven in the northern strip. The
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  Speaker 1: Israeli military stated it had struck a militant in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses reported a second strike hit near rescuers who had
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  Speaker 1: rushed to the scene. Separately, the IDF announced Tuesday it
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  Speaker 1: had killed Ahmad Batash, identified as the commander of Hamas's
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  Speaker 1: Jabalia battalion in northern Gaza. The military stated Batash was
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  Speaker 1: responsible for logistics and supplying weapons to terrorists. A controversy
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  Speaker 1: is also developing around the documentary, NAZA. Its co-director, Yuval Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: accused Israeli media of ignoring Gazan civilian deaths during the conflict.
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  Speaker 1: questioning why outlets had not broadcast allegations from IDF intelligence
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  Speaker 1: officers interviewed in the film. Abraham claims the film alleges
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  Speaker 1: A-assisted strikes killed hundreds of Gazan civilians. The IDF has
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  Speaker 1: called these claims completely false, issuing a statement that the
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  Speaker 1: military has never planned, approved or carried out a strike
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza in which 500 civilians or anything near that
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  Speaker 1: number were anticipated to be killed. On the Northern Front,
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  Speaker 1: The IDF announced Tuesday that soldiers located ready-to-use rocket launchers,
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  Speaker 1: containing 32 rockets, aimed at Israeli territory in southern Lebanon's
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  Speaker 1: Mount Dov area, within Israel's security line. The military stated
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  Speaker 1: these weapons had been in place since before the ceasefire agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Soldiers also dismantled a nearby terrorist hideout. In regional maritime security,
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  Speaker 1: Iran struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Reports
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  Speaker 1: indicate no damage was sustained in the incident. which occurred
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  Speaker 1: in a critical global shipping lane. Turning to US policy,
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon is reportedly pressing UN Security Council members to establish
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  Speaker 1: a multinational force to replace the UN interim force in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: or UNIFIL, whose mandate expires at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Two Western diplomats told the Jerusalem Post that the US
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  Speaker 1: opposes extending UNIFIL's mandate, leading Lebanon to propose a smaller,
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  Speaker 1: UNIFIL-like force. Discussions are currently underway regarding the potential mandate
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  Speaker 1: and size of such a force. US Treasury Secretary Scott
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  Speaker 1: Besant stated that under President Trump, the US ended the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian threat rather than managing it. Meanwhile, Israel's ambassador to
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  Speaker 1: the UAE, Yossi Shelly, suggested that another country, possibly Kuwait,
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  Speaker 1: could join the Abraham Accords within the next four to
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  Speaker 1: six months, indicating potential expansion of the normalisation agreements. Domestically,
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  Speaker 1: families of October 7 victims unveiled the 7-10 file, attributing
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  Speaker 1: the massacre to years of failed government policies and demanding
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  Speaker 1: a state inquiry. The report includes a Nova victim's final
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  Speaker 1: call and a statement from a young relative expressing disillusionment. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: the far-right Religious Zionist Party released a video simulating the
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  Speaker 1: arrests of Supreme Court President Isaac Armen, Justice Daphne Barakirez
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  Speaker 1: and Attorney General Ghali Baharavmiyara. This was part of their
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  Speaker 1: campaign for future judicial reform and has drawn condemnation, including
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  Speaker 1: from political candidate Gadi Eisenkot. In other political news, eight
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  Speaker 1: heads of settlements in the South have announced their support
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  Speaker 1: for Gadi Eisenkot. For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world,
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  Speaker 1: slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to
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